I go by Leicontis, and I'm an unemployed 26-year-old male engineer from the Boston area. I stumbled upon this site a few weeks back, and since I've got a twisted, random, horrible mind, I figured I might have something useful to contribute. The clinical writing style of the SCPs suits me fairly well - my education included a number of projects, all of which required write-ups in a similar tone. That said, I'm inclined far more towards science than art, so the whole "creativity" thing can be a bit of a challenge. Be forewarned, however, that I come from a family of teachers, and am thus prone to nit-picking over grammar, spelling, and the like.

Aside from that, I'm a horrible person - as I put on my application, I managed to elicit an exclamation of "You sick, sadistic bastard!" from a good friend whose personality resembles the in-character persona of Dr. Bright… and I did so with a Christmas present.

I've got a few SCP ideas, but most of them are mediocre at best. One may be workable into a joke SCP (since one of the first things I thought of from it was introducing Barney to 682). Another I've reworked into a story at pooryoric's suggestion, and have been relieved at the net positive response so far.

Edited to update, rather than clogging the Recent Posts page with more of my drivel

So, it'll obviously be a long time (if ever) before I earn a profile page, but if I end up adding to experiment logs (more than my one 050 prank), I should probably have at least some idea of my in-character persona.

How's this: A reasonably competent researcher specializing in anomalous materials and novel applications, with an unhealthy interest in sharp objects. So much so, in fact, that he is prohibited from accessing any bladed and/or blade-related SCP without O5 approval, ever since an incident with scp-572 (handing that to him was like throwing gasoline on a campfire). His office is copiously decorated with a variety of mundane swords and knives, despite the fact that he has no actual skill or training in their use. The project currently occupying most of his time is working out ways to weaponize scp-504 (planning to write an entry to that effect for the 504 test log).

We're trying to steer the site away from this sort of thing, Leicontis.
Like ghost said, it's not a roleplaying site. You don't have an in character persona. We call that a self insert, and it's a bad thing.

Researchers and Agents are nothing more than names used to fluff out articles. A few of them, Clef or Kondraki for example, are used in Foundation tales and decom logs as well. They're purely fictional characters, not "in character personas".

If you want to write a Foundation tale involving a Researcher, feel free to characterise him or her as much as you like within the realm of the story. That's completely acceptable. But if you came here thinking you could create a Clefdraki of your very own, I'm afraid you're going to be very very dissapointed.

Indeed. Stuffing extra researchers into the site is not something that's on our list of priorities. In order to distinguish them from each other, they tend to be rather eccentric or have memorable character traits, and then we ask ourselves why the Foundation hires so many weirdos who need containment procedures of their own.

Honestly, the practice of having member profiles originally began just as a joke, and the practice of naming them after your screenname was mostly so that you'd have a name to attribute snide/humorous appendices on SCP reports.

I had figured on something less like a Clef or Kondraki and more like the "Dr. King" mentioned in multiple test logs (always in relation to apple seeds). He'd only be a self-insert to the degree that the persona is like a caricature of my own, and liable to be the butt of plenty of gags. Minor things like sticking a sword in 914 on various settings, with the "Fine" result expunged and a note prohibiting his further access to 914. Most of his ideas are likely to be a little on the odd side, like the aforementioned attempt to weaponize 504 (which might be very possible, depending on whether it could drag a metal shell along with it).

Like I said, a member profile is unlikely at best - I'm aiming more to give any additions I write a consistent flavor (aside from non-joke SCP objects, which I'd try to make suitably creepy).

I have to partially disagree there, based on what I've read (and seen survive the Mass Edit intact). This site is mostly creepy/horror-themed, but injected with scattered bits of comedy. Frankly, the comedic aspects help play up the surreality of some of the other material, and make the site as a whole more robust. After all, if you culled out all of the more comedy-oriented non-joke SCPs (050, 294, 504, 572, 914, etc), the resulting uniformity would come across as blandness, blunting the effect of the scarier SCPs.

To be honest, it was the levity and black comedy interspersed with the freaky and bizarre that drew me to this site. I've been getting the overall impression that I'm not really wanted here, since pretty much the only responses I get from anyone are along the lines of "No." - if you don't want other newbies coming in with the same misconceptions I apparently harbor, you'd do well to purge the above-listed SCPs and the decommissioning logs, as well as pretty much everything starring Clef and/or Kondraki.

I'm not trying to be a smartass (okay, maybe a little) - I've really enjoyed both the dark and darkly humorous sides of the SCPF. I'd very much like to contribute to this site, but I have precious little talent when it comes to writing scary, so I lean on the comedic potential I see.

One of the finer points of the mass edit is the toning down and partial phasing out of those "OH YOU WACKY RESEARCHERS!" type characters and article addenda. As Clef pointed out here, that idea started off as a joke in and of itself, and with a large influx of new kids, became far too large and cumbersome, in fact starting to undermine the semi-serious nature of the fiction presented here somewhat.

Also, if your ideas are being unanimously declined, they've probably either been done before, or you would do well to read the guide material again and figure out why it is kids don't seem to like them.